Xiaonian is a traditional festival before the Spring Festival in China. After Xiaonian, the Spring Festival will soon be ushered in. Therefore, many customs and customs of Xiaonian are to welcome the new year. So what are the customs and customs of Xiaonian? This article brings you a summary and inventory of New Year customs and customs. Let's have a look. Custom of Xiaonian
1. Sacrificial stove
It is also the day of folk sacrifice to cookers. According to folklore, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year, the kitchen god would go up to heaven to report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when delivering the stove, people put candy, water, cooking beans, hay, couplets and grass on the table in front of the kitchen king; Among them, the last three are to prepare materials for the mount of kitchen King ascending to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, you should melt Guandong sugar with fire and apply it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the Jade Emperor. In addition, on the evening of new year's Eve, the stove king will come to the world with the gods for the new year. On that day, there must be a ceremony to receive the stove and God. When every family burns sedan chairs and horses, sprinkles three cups of wine and sends away the kitchen god, it's their turn to worship their ancestors.
Buy a new kitchen god portrait after the new year and invite the kitchen god back. In the past few days, without the supervision of the kitchen god, most people drink and eat too much, gather people to gamble, and indulge themselves to make some small mistakes that they usually think they should not make.
2. Cleaning
In December, every family is ready for the new year. The purpose of sweeping the dust is to get rid of the old, welcome the new and remove the ominous. Every household should carefully and thoroughly clean the windows. In Beijing, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is usually designated as the house sweeping day.
Dust sweeping is mainly to thoroughly clean the home. Housewives usually cover the bed furniture in the room, wrap their heads with a headscarf, and then sweep the walls up and down with a broom. After sweeping the house, scrub the tables and chairs and wash the floor. After sweeping the house, the shops and residents' homes take on a new look. The newly pasted Spring Festival couplets are dazzling, showing the prosperous prosperity. The vivid door god, raised his head to see happy banners, exquisite window flowers, colorful new year pictures, colorful lanterns, and rich offerings on the shrine all show a happy and prosperous festival scene.
3. Bath haircut
There is a folk saying that people shave their heads for the new year if they have money or not. The activities of bathing and hairdressing are mostly carried out around the Spring Festival.
4. Drive out disorderly marriage
After twenty-three, the folk believed that the gods went to heaven without taboos. Marrying a daughter-in-law and hiring a daughter do not have to choose a day, which is called rush marriage. The ballad has a year-old Yan's busy marriage in the countryside, and Yichun Posts amuse the spring. The sisters in front of the lamp talk privately. ShouSui is the saying of the bridal chamber this year.
5. Stick window flowers
After the window is built, it is pasted in the newly cleaned house, which adds a lot of joy to the family for the new year.
There are stories about various animals, plants and people in the window pattern, such as magpie climbing plum and peacock.
What are the customs of Xiaonian
1. Bath haircut
One of the customs of Xiaonian is bathing and haircutting. There is a saying among the people that "if you have money, shave your head for the new year". According to the folk saying, you can't cut your hair during the first month, otherwise your hair won't grow out. Shave your hair during the new year, and you can't cut it again until February of the next year when Erlong looks up.
2. Stick window flowers
There are a variety of folk activities in Xiaonian, mostly to prepare for the new year, and cutting and pasting window flowers is also one of them.
3. Change the kitchen god portrait
Xiaonian needs to change the kitchen god portrait on this day. While taking off the old kitchen god portrait, every family should 'please' come back with a new kitchen king.
4. Cleaning
After the Chinese new year, there are only six or seven days left from the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the Chinese New Year are even more busy. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as dust sweeping, dust sweeping is to get rid of the old, welcome the new and remove the ominous. Every household should carefully and thoroughly clean the windows.